Weather-strip.



A. E. DECKER.

WEATHER STRIP.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 2 I915.

Patented Sept. 18, 1917.

2 SHEETS-SHEEI 2.

A ALONZO E. DECKER, F FREMONT, OHIO.

WEATHER-STRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 191 '7.

Application filed November 27, 1915. Serial No. 63,847.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALoNzo E. DECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fremont, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in lVeather-Strips, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to weather strips for doors and is particularly adapted for use on a side stile and lintel of the'door so as to procure an air tight connection between the door and the door frame and at the same time allow the door to come to an absolute closing position, that is to say to allow the proper registration between the, I

lock of the door and the keeper plate.

An object of the invention is to construct the weather strip so as to conform to the warping of a door.

Another object of the invention is to construct a weather strip, the parts of which are so associated as to prevent any foreign matter from lodging around a vital part which if it took efiect would materially interfere with the proper operation of the weather strip.

With these objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combination of elements and in the construction and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a door and its associated frame showing my invention applied to the latter.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detail views.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the strip.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates a door mounted in the frame 2. This frame 2 comprises the usual side stiles 3 and lintel 4. Each stile is provided with a longitudinally extending groove 5 extending the entire length of the stile. This groove 5 receives a flange 6 of a guard plate 7 L-shaped in cross section. The remaining flange 8 of this guard plate is arranged parallel to the surface of its associated stile so as to leave between this flange and the stile, a rectan gular space 9 that receives the strip 10. The strip 10 in the side stiles is mounted somewhat differently from that mounted in the lintel. The strip in the side stiles is provided with a pair of spaced slots 11 across each of which is bridged a plate 12 secured to one edge of the strip. Mounted in each of the slots 11 is a screw 13 that engages the stile. That edge of the strip to which ,the plate 12 is secured is provided with spaced grooves 1 in each of which is mounted a leaf spring 15, the free extremity 16 of which bears against a plate 17 that is in turn connected to the flange 6.

The point of difference that exists between the strip of the lintel and the strip of the side stile is the mounting of the former strip. The strip 18 is mounted in the top lintel by means of pin and slot connections 19, the slot remote from the hinged end of the door being of a greater depth than the opposite slot, in order to permit this end of the strip to have a greater movement, so as to accommodate it to the warping of the door, which usually occurs at this point. In other words, should this end of the door hecome warped the increased depth of this slot will permit a greater play of the strip 18 so as to accommodate it to the inaccuracies of the door. 1

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the vertical strips have a sliding movement for resiliently abutting the adjacent side of the door whereas the top strip 18 has a swinging as well as a sliding movement for allowing for the warping of the door which generally takes place from that edge of the door hinged to the frame toward the opposite vertical edge.

Having thus described one type or embodiment of my invention I desire it to be understood that although specific terms are employed they are used in a generic and descriptive sense and not for the purpose of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the following claim.

What I claim is:

A weather strip comprising in combination a stile grooved throughout its length, a

guard plate L-shaped in cross-section having its short limb completely filling said groove and spacing the long limb from the stile, a strip mounted between the long limb force the strip tightly against the door when and the stile for sliding movement, pins carin a closed position. 10 ried by said plate and workin in slots in In testimony whereof I affiX my signature said strip near each end thereof; one of said in presence of tWo Witnesses.

5 slots being of greater depth to permit said ALONZO E. DECKER.

strip to conform to the warping of the door Witnesses: I and springs carried by said strip and Work- C. B. CARR,

ing against the short leg of the plate to F. E. AMBROSE. 

